Children's Intelligence/Need for Cognition Profiles: Relations With Self-, Parent, and Teacher Perceptions

• In Event: Fairmont Roundtable Session Three
  In Roundtable Session: Research on Giftedness, Creativity, and Talent SIG Roundtable: Education and Assessment (Table 18)

Abstract

We investigated profiles of intelligence and need for cognition (NFC) of 1000 fourth graders and how students with different profiles differ in learning-related variables. We used latent class analyses and discriminant function analyses. We found four different intelligence/NFC profiles. Students in the different classes differed significantly in self-, teacher-, and parent-reported learning-related variables: Class 1 (9%) was described as “low performing”; class 2 (39%) was described as “inconspicuous”; class 3 (19%) was described as “less intelligent and low achieving but highly motivated”; class 4 (33%) was described as “high performing and motivated”. There was no high intelligence/low NFC class. High NFC may be a characteristic of intellectually gifted students, in part explaining their need for appropriate cognitive challenge.

Authors

• Franzis Preckel, University of Trier
  Presenting Author

• Moritz Lion Breit, University of Trier
  Non-Presenting Author